Torture Quotes

Chess is mental torture.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

I don't torture myself.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

When you have girl children they torture you!

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.